How To Install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7.
What is perl-Time-y2038
On many computers, Perl’s time functions will not work past the year 2038. This is a design fault in the underlying C libraries Perl uses. Time which will work accurately +/1 142 million years.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Time-y2038.
Install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Time-y2038 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Time-y2038
Install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Time-y2038 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Time-y2038
How To Uninstall perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-Time-y2038 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Time-y2038
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Time-y2038 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.